The procmail mail processing agent is very powerful but often confusing. Visit this powerful application with Jack Wallen, Jr. as he helps you understand procmail's sometimes archaic language. Imagine ...

Dreamhost hosts over half a million domains, luring customers with cheap rates and acres of storage and bandwidth. They've also been historically pretty good in terms of using open tools and standards ...

Q: I use sendmail and a POP mail server on a Linux box. I am desperately looking for a way to filter incoming messages processed by sendmail based on their subject names and enclosure names. I would ...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were no graphical e-mail clients. So what you had to do to get your mail was to connect a server with telnet over the network, or directly over a modem ...

There are two ways that procmail can be set up. You can set it up so that each user can choose to use it (or not) or you can have it invoked through your mailer. We’re going to examine the first ...

In November 2002, I wrote an article called “Busting Spam with Bogofilter, Procmail and Mutt”. It contained a particularly handy configuration that took out a lot of the work of marking mail as spam ...

Most users don't need to know any of this. If you do, or if you're interested in highly technical details, read on... Mail is received at ENCS by the Postfix SMTP agent, which, by default, hands a ...

So here is the situation:<BR><BR>I create a new user, lets say "maria". I run "smbpasswd -a maria" to get her set up with samba. Everything works fine. She can log in, access network drives, printer, ...

As of June 2022, the use of procmail is deprecated. It will continue to be available indefinitely, but if you can, you are encouraged to switch to SIEVE. For information about SIEVE, please see: ...